Editing Dandenong Ranges (section)

== Geology and ecology ==
[[File:Sherbrooke Forest Dandenong Ranges.JPG|thumb|right|250px|[[Sherbrooke Forest]]]]
[[File:Olinda Forest.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Olinda Forest, west of Olinda Falls]]
The range is the remains of an extinct [[volcano]] last active 373 million years ago.<ref name=Birch1994/> It consists predominantly of [[Devonian]] [[dacite]] and [[rhyodacite]].

The topography consists of a series of ridges dissected by deeply cut streams. Sheltered gullies in the south of the range are home to temperate rain forest, fern gullies and Mountain Ash forest ''[[Eucalyptus regnans]]'', whereas the drier ridges and exposed northern slopes are covered by dry [[sclerophyll]] forest of [[stringybark]]s and box. The entire range is highly prone to [[Bushfires in Victoria|bushfires]], the most recent of which have been the 1983 [[Ash Wednesday bushfires]], the [[1996–97 Australian bushfire season|1997 Dandenong Ranges bushfires]] and small fires during the [[Black Saturday bushfires]] in 2009.

A number of watercourses originate in the Dandenongs, these include:
*[[Cardinia Creek]]
*Clematis Creek
*[[Dandenong Creek]]
*[[Eumemmerring Creek]]
*Emerald Creek
*[[Ferny Creek, Victoria|Ferny Creek]]
*Mast Gully Creek
*[[Menzies Creek, Victoria|Menzies Creek]]
*Monbulk Creek
*Muddy Creek
*Olinda Creek
*[[Sassafras, Victoria|Sassafras Creek]]
*Sherbrooke Creek
*Stringy Bark Creek
*Wandin Yallock Creek
*[[Woori Yallock Creek]]

===Waterfalls===
*Olinda Falls
*Sherbrooke Falls
*Griffith Falls

===Summits===
[[File:Closeup of Mt Dandenong Towers.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Mount Corhanwarrabul summit, 2005]]
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Sortable table
|-
! scope="col" | Summit Name 
! scope="col" | Height (m) 
! scope="col"  class="unsortable" | Comments 
! scope="col"  class="unsortable" | Location 
! scope="col"  class="unsortable" | Source{{efn|Survey mark and counter data has been accessed from the State of Victoria Land and Survey Spatial Information<ref>https://maps.land.vic.gov.au/lassi/ Land and Survey Spatial Information, State of Victoria (Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning). Accessed 15 June 2020.</ref>}}
|-
| Mount Dandenong || 630 || Tallest peak of the Dandenongs || Observatory Road, Mt Dandenong || DANDENONG ECC J survey mark
|-
| Mount Corhanwarrabul || 612 || Burkes lookout and location of transmission towers || Burkes Lookout Reserve, Eyre Road, Mt Dandenong || contour data
|-
| Olinda summit || 592 || No official name. Labelled Mt Olinda in older tourist maps. || Range Road, Olinda || contour data
|-
| Sassafras peak || 538 || No recorded name. || Cooloongatta Road, Sassafras || contour data
|-
| Dunns Hill || 562 || Location of a number of radio and telephone towers. || One Tree Hill Road, Ferny Creek || contour data
|-
| One Tree Hill || 500 ||  || Lord Somers Road, Ferny Creek || contour data
|-
| Tremont Hill || 395 || No official name. || Tremont Hill Track, Tremont || contour data
|-
| Chandlers Hill || 405 ||  || Chandlers Track, Tremont || contour data
|-
| Johns Hill || 419 ||  || Johns Hill Reserve, Ridge Road, Kallista || JOHNS HILL ECC 1986 survey mark
|-
| Black Hill || 374 ||  || Black Hill Reserve, Two Bays Crescent, Selby || contour data
|-
| Upwey Hill || 278 ||  || Belmont Street, Upwey || contour data
|-
| Lewis Hill || 298 ||  || Queens Road, Silvan || contour data
|-
| Nobelius Hill || 320 ||  || Ambrose Street, Emerald || contour data
|-
| Mount Morton || 275 ||  || Chaundy Road, Belgrave South || MORTON ECC A survey mark
|}
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